by Jean-Guy Allard
Apr. 25, 2010
Reprinted from Periodico26l

The fifth-rate soap opera the CIA came up with to keep its agent Luis Posada Carriles free, in spite of his terrorist crimes and confusing the US public, is skipping gaily on: Judge Kathleen Cardone, from El Paso, Texas, in charge of the case, has granted the US government a new postponement until June 2, 2010.

Pictures of the 73 victims of the bombing of Cubana Flight 455, in front of the El Paso Federal Courthouse on the occasion of Posada's last actual hearing, May 11, 2007.

The new court order had been signed by the Texan judge on April 12, 2010, but was not made public until today, when the president of the National Assembly, interviewed by the press after exercising his right to vote in Sunday’s elections, stressed how the five Cubans imprisoned in the US for monitoring the activities of terrorist groups in Miami were unable to exert their right to vote.

According to a report by the Prensa Latina news agency, Ricardo Alarcón revealed that in the meantime, "the trial against the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles continues to be postponed, by agreements between the government and the district attorney’s office."

Procedures accompanying Posada’s trial were scheduled for May 20, but the federal district attorney’s office, under the somewhat ridiculous pretext of having another commitment for that day, requested another postponement.

"The assembly was postponed on April 12, however, nothing has been said, I haven’t seen any report, not a single media outlet has reported it", commented Alarcón while underlining the absolute information blockade by both the news agencies and the mafia press in Miami.

The so-called assembly is nothing but an exchange between the district attorney’s office and the defense to agree on the orientation of the trial and the date it will take place.

This form of "justice" is something normal in the United States, where cases are prolonged by delaying procedures when the District Attorney’s Office and the defense have a common interest in this regard. On this occasion, the district attorney’s office needs to save Posada from extradition, something good for the defense which, in the meantime, continues billing from the fund of Posada’s "benefactors."

Ironically, Posada’s dossier is under the responsibility of the federal district attorney’s office of the antiterrorist section of the Department of Justice.

The current US administration –like that of George W. Bush- hopes to make people believe it has no evidence that Posada is one of the masterminds behind the explosion, in mid air, of a Cubana airliner in Barbados in 1976.

It doesn’t recognize either that his main accomplice, Orlando Bosch Ávila, who took refuge in Miami in July 28, 1960, is a terrorist.

Posada and Bosch are co-founders of CORU, the terrorist Coordinating Committee of United Revolutionary Organizations, the operations of which are among the bloodiest in the history of terrorism in the continent.

Posada was, for several decades, a regular collaborator and a confessed agent of the US Central Intelligence Agency, under the guidance of which he committed numerous acts of terrorism, tortured and made people disappear in counterinsurgency operations, while in Venezuela, as in Central America, he trafficked in weapons and narcotics and participated in several assassination attempts against Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

While Posada and his supporters want to justify their crimes based on the fact that he was following CIA orders, the attorney general’s office affirms that mentioning Posada Carriles’s links with the CIA is not pertinent for the study of the 11 charges presented. Judge Cardone banned the assassin’s lawyers from involving the CIA in his defense.

After the illegal entry of Posada into the United States five years ago, he was formally accused of minor charges beginning January 2007. His trial was first set for May 11 of that year. Three years ago!

And exactly four years have passed since Robert E. Jolicoeur, director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in El Paso, Texas addressed a letter to Posada Carriles, under arrest at the time, in which he told him that he was "a risk to the national security of the United States."

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by Roberto Pérez Betancourt
Apr. 27, 2010
Reprinted from ACN

HAVANA, Cuba, Apr 26 (acn) Jose Pertierra, the lawyer that represents Venezuela in the request of extradition of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who took refuge in the United States (where he has remained over the last five years), denounced on Monday the new farce in this case.

In statements by telephone from Washington, the jurist told journalists at the Round Table program aired today by Cuban radio and television that the postponement of the meeting that had been scheduled was announced by judge Kathleen Cardone, at the request of the attorney general’s office, claiming that it failed to realize it had other commitments for May 20, the date established for the meeting.

Pertierra emphasized that the purpose of that hearing was only to inform the judge about the legal state of the case, so she decided the date the trial will take place. She recalled that most of the documents related to the process remain sealed and are not accessible to the public; that the reasons for the postponement originally announced by the judge of El Paso, Texas, are not known; and that only the lawyers and the attorney general will probably attend the aforementioned meeting.

The expert pointed out that Posada will actually be tried for being a liar and not for his crimes as a terrorist, like the act of sabotage carried out against a Cubana airliner that exploded in mid air in 1976 killing all 73 people on board or the assassination of Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo by way of a bomb at the Copacabana Hotel in 1997.

He also recalled that Venezuela requested Washington the extradition of Posada Carriles in June, 2005, shortly after his illegal entry in the US, and underlined that since that date the US attorney general’s office hasn’t made a decision. They “keep us dancing” with a case of perjury that they hasn’t even been tried yet, which evidences an attitude of protection towards the criminal.

With regard to the possibility of finally trying Posada for his crimes, Pertierra said that we would have to wonder how old the assassin would be by the time that moment comes, which makes people think that perhaps the US administration is hoping he’ll die before then, since he’s a man advanced in years.

 

 

 

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